Description: Vibration measurement isn't always a straightforward task. Not only are there many different instrumentation and software options you must choose from, finding vetted suppliers can be a task in of ...

Description: The intent of this Technical Note is to provide an abbreviated set of commands and procedures to initially check out the functionality of a Lily Borehole Tiltmeter, and configure it for storing data ...

Description: Kipp & Zonen radiometers were used for a case study in Finland on the effects of different types of ventilation units on keeping pyranometers clean, especially in the winter conditions of snow and ...

Description: Not all CO2 monitors are suitable for leak detection in refrigeration applications. Sensors need to respond quickly to CO2 levels. CO2 has a high operating pressure, and gases can quickly escape into ...

Description: Refrigerant gas detection has been used in the marketplace for many years. The drivers for this have included safety, regulation, cost, energy efficiency, environmental protection and protection of ...

Description: Modern refrigerant systems are designed to be efficient and leak free. Refrigerant systems are pressurized and in reality, it is widely accepted that no pressurized system is entirely leak free; it is ...

Description: The University of Michigan designed and constructed a test-bed for the purpose of evaluating PV modules in real-world conditions, and the impacts of key variables that affect PV performance. Outdoor ...

Description: Accurate assessment of solar radiation is the foundation upon which profitability of the solar energy industry rests. Precise, on-site, ground measurements with calibrated equipment, is the gold ...

Description: The Sasol Solar Challenge is an eight-day event that took place in South Africa in September 2016. This event sees local and international solar-powered cars travel as fast as they can on various ...

Description: The question has been raised as to the relationship between "calibration" (accuracy of the
pressure decay leak tester) and "resolution" (ability of the tester to detect a pressure difference
- "decay" ...

Description: Metal powders of defined size and pureness are an
important intermediate for further use in the
production of minerals based industrial products
such as paints, pyrotechnics, silicon nitride
ceramics ...

Description: Publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) collect wastewater from municipal, commercial and industrial facilities, transport it through a series of contributor pipes, known as a collection system, and ...

Description: There are many factors to consider when selecting a non-contact thermal measurement device. While emissivity and wavelength are crucial when measuring the temperature of specific materials or objects, ...

Description: Seeing wind turbines is commonplace these days and they are a large part of energy production. A wind turbine harnesses wind power to generate electricity. The most common is a horizontal axis wind ...

Description: One of the greatest challenges for instrument engineers is dealing with the relatively low resistance of the device. This is because any stray resistance (in particular lead resistance) of RTD ...

Description: This article, recently featured on the Navy SBIR/STTR Success Stories, highlights our Slam Stick Wireless Vibration Recorder (WVR), and explains how it has benefited the US Navy, and its SBIR/STTR ...

Description: Confocal chromatic sensors offer modern technology allied with high speed and maximum precision. These characteristics make these versatile displacement and
distance sensors suitable for the high ...

Description: Today's marine navigation environment offers unprecedented challenges. With the advent of worldwide commerce and economy of scales, Vessel sizes have reached toward the extremes. This has created ...

Description: Memsense, under contract by the US Army's Aviation Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), developed the sensor component for a tactical rocket retrofit package called the ...

Description: Semiconductor strain gages (SSGs) have very high change in resistance when strained. On a comparative basis, the sensitivity of semiconductor strain gages is fifty to one hundred times (50X-100X) the ...

Description: AMETEK Land has supplied its Near Infrared Borescope (NIR-B) 3XR, an enhanced thermal imager, to the world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and health, Air Liquide, which is now ...

Description: Mold - a common type of fungi - can take hold in any humid area such as around windows, leaky pipes, carpeting, or saturated areas like wet basements. Once mold enters your building, it can quickly ...

Description: Most companies and organizations have many unexplored ways to lower their energy bills. In fact your own facility likely has several unrealized areas where you can decrease or otherwise optimize your ...

Description: Both eddy-current sensors as well as inductive switches and displacement sensors have been used for many years, each having their respective advantages when it comes to measuring position and ...

Description: This past February the ASSE Board approved standard 1070-2004 entitled Performance Requirements for Water
Temperature Limiting Devices. The standard was developed for thermostatic devices that ...

Description: A multi-national manufacturer of Agriculture Chemicals producing insecticides, herbicides, fertilizers & fungicides has used Macnaught Oval Gear Flow Technology in a number of their Global production ...

Description: This document illustrates using Acromag's TT330 series to monitor high temperatures in an automotive paint curing oven and transmit to the existing PLC 4-20mA input card/software setup. ...

Description: This white paper will give you a keen understanding of the three basic laws of thermocouples: Homogeneous materials, Intermediate Metals, and Successive or Intermediate Temperatures, can be very ...

Description: Unprecedented advances in medicine and genetics have created a deep understanding of biological life at the molecular level. This enables more precise diagnosis of symptoms and conditions, and well as ...

Description: A load cell is a transducer that converts an input force into a measurable electrical output. Load cells are built with different force measurement devices; however, strain gage load cells are the ...

Description: Loosely defined as a "metal to metal weld, braze, solder or metal to glass fusion," hermetic sealing is a vague (and often abused) term. Under the previously cited definition even a porous weld would ...

Description: A search of the patents for float level sensors and float switches will uncover a number of patents dated back to the late 1800's. One invention references a magnetic float used to induce movement of ...

Description: Flow measurement in the food and beverage and the pharmaceutical and biotech processing industries is one of the most fundamental and critical measurement applications in terms of affecting product ...

Description: Generating electricity in a natural gas power plant is a complex process due to the multiple steps involved with the different types of fluids being used and optimized. Dr. John Olin, Founder of ...

Description: An insertion-type (immersible) thermal flow meter works by measuring the total mass flow rate ofÂ air/gasÂ flowing through a pipe or duct.Â In a thermal flow meterâ€™s simplest working ...

Description: The accuracy of a measurement does not just depend
on the sensor accuracy itself but also on the set up of the sensing system. The SHTxx sensors sample relative humidity and temperature of their ...

Description: Powdery Mildew is a serious and persistent fungal disease that effects wine grape, table grape, and raisin vineyards. One of the most effective tools developed to date to combat this disease is the UC ...

Description: As a practical matter, most commercial infrared thermometers are calibrated with "homemade" blackbodies of unknown and uncertified emissivities. This design for a water-immersible certified-emissivity ...

Description: There are many pressure related issues of concern in petroleum well production. Both high and low pressure conditions are indications of problems that must be addressed to maintain well safety and ...

Description: Infrared (IR) windows save lives. Most Thermographers today are thankful to perform their scans without the danger and time of removing heavy panels. But just
as the thermal imager is a tool - so is ...

Description: Electrical accidents happen daily; however, there are important steps that companies and individuals can take to reduce the occurrence of these accidents and protect everybody concerned from the ...

Description: As the saying goes, "garbage in, garbage out." This truism is every bit as applicable in thermography as it is in computer data-mining. The difference is that the inaccurate data which leads a ...

Description: Proper installation of the infrared window is critical for the long-term use of the window and for the longterm performance of the electrical panel and equipment enclosure. Before starting an infrared ...

Description: 1997: Original IR windows were produced using Aluminum constructed housings and used Calcium Fluoride, Barium Fluoride and Sapphire crystals as the IR window lens
materials. These were both round and ...

Description: Currently, specific certifications for infrared window by a recognized body (UL, IEEE) do not exist. The following certifications are used by manufacturers to provide confidence that the IR Viewing ...

Description: Some manufacturers of crystal infrared windows claim their products are "Arc Resistant"!! This is a very dangerous statement to make especially when we already
know that crystals cannot take any form ...

Description: When looking for a way to reduce plant operating costs, one of the potentially simplest and often least expensive solutions is to measure liquid and gas flow more accurately. Plant upgrade projects ...

Description: Efficient process flows are, of course, essential for any manufacturing operation, but for food manufacturers, the nature of the ingredients moving within these flows presents unique challenges. Few ...

Description: Coil coating line managers report that they experience three basic problems in solvent vapor monitoring, last week we looked at maintenance issues, this week the focus is on accuracy:
Sensor accuracy ...

Description: I have received a pressure transducer with the calibration certificate. I am uncertain of the terms listed on the cal cert. Can you explain these terms a little more relative to how it may affect my ...

Description: Steel and cast iron are typically used for bore housings as they provide a good surface for accepting both metal and rubber O.D. seals. For soft metal, such as Aluminum, a rubber O.D. is recommended. ...

Description: Steel and cast iron are typically used for bore housings as they provide a good surface for accepting both metal and rubber O.D. seals. For soft metal, such as Aluminum, a rubber O.D. is recommended. ...

Description: How is the ZMO value derived with Endevco absolute pressure transducers? I have an 8515C-50 transducer with a ZMO specified on the cal cert. Is this value recorded at atmospheric pressure? ...

Description: In the oil and gas industry, regulations and requirements to measure, monitor and report flared gases continue to expand and extend. The USA EPA continues to focus on enhancing regulations aimed at ...

Description: When looking for a way to reduce plant operating costs, one of the potentially simplest and often least expensive solutions is to measure liquid and gas flow more accurately. Plant upgrade projects ...

Description: Industrial pumps consume up to 20% of the world's energy production and can be responsible for 25 to 50% of a process plant's energy bill, according to Europump, the Hydraulic Institute and other ...

Description: A company with multiple natural gas liquid (NGL)
fractionation process facilities located in the
Southeastern U.S became concerned about a series of
missed events and nuisance alarms caused by the ...

Description: When the plant team at a large semiconductor
manufacturer in the northwestern region of the
U.S. found its boilers were consuming an unusually large quantity of natural gas, the numbers simply didn't ...

Description: Accurate temperature measurement is key for controlling the stability and repeatability of many temperature-critical processes. This often has a direct influence on product quality and process ...

Description: Material surface properties often change during the manufacturing process as a result of oxidation or through the introduction of coatings. This change affects the emissivity of the material being ...

Description: The Vibration Sentry series datalogger can be used to monitor shipments in transit and record adverse events such as shocks, high vibration levels and/or tilt. In order to do that properly, careful ...

Description: In plastics processing where thermal processes play a particularly important role, temperature is the crucial measurement parameter. Only precise temperature control ensures high, consistent product ...

Description: Viscosity is the measure of a substance's resistance to motion under an applied force. Are you working with Newtonian or Non-Newtonian Fluids? From adhesives to paint and food to petroleum - viscosity ...

Description: For many years there has been a general industry-wide reputation or myth that all MOS H2S gas sensors are prone to losing sensitivity if they are not regularly exposed to H2S gas. This reputation for ...

Description: A biosensor is a device capable of detecting a certain substance or analyte with high specificity. Examples of such analytes are glucose, lactate, glutamine and glutamate. Most biosensors measure the ...

Description: In definition, response time refers to the interval in time a system needs to react to a given input. Decreasing response time while maintaining a high quality and accuracy is an issue which many ...

Description: A medical OEM designer wanted to design a waste management system that would fit into their existing footprint while also maximizing the amount of waste held by the bottle. They also needed to protect ...

Description: The current land speed record is 763.035 mph. The BLOODHOUND SSC Project hopes to set a new record of 1000 mph.
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Description: A regional Power Generation Facility had been tasked by their insurance carrier to perform regular preventive maintenance on the switchgear within their facility. Unfortunately, regular downtime was ...

Description: A medical anesthesia machine is designed to deliver drugs that help to
eliminate pain and other unwanted sensations.
The continuous flow anesthetic machine provides an accurate and
constant supply of ...

Description: Sleep apnea is the repeated cessation of breathing during sleep,
sometimes hundreds of times during the night and often for a minute
or longer. If left untreated, sleep apnea can cause high blood ...

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elements of the cabinets are different with each model, type and rating. Switchgear companies ...

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Description: Manufactured in 2013, the Maersk Intrepid is a drilling rig that has been designed to operate in the extremely harsh environment of the North Sea. Up to 150 people stay on the rig at any one time
so, ...

Description: Although you may be the engineer responsible for installing the IR window, you may not be the one
using it. Record all required target data inside the panel, this will make sure that the same data is ...

Description: Embedded sensors, switches, scan engines and barcode decoding software may potentially be used throughout a hospital to enhance patient care. Honeywell's products are designed to provide enhanced ...

Description: Fragility increases proportionally to the ratio of the diameter to thickness. If thickness stays the same as
the diameter increases, so does the fragility factor. Minimum thickness of a window ...